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5–7 Students can do these exercises in pairs. Check answers.
Extra practice
If you are teaching a multilingual group in an English-speaking 
environment, students could also research Park & Ride in the 
town / city in which they are studying.
B
Have you got any change?
Write the question on the board. Point to the word change. 
Explain to the class that the noun change can have many 
different meanings. Ask students what it means in this question. 
If someone has a learner’s dictionary (such as Cambridge 
Essential English Dictionary
), ask this person to look up change 
in the dictionary and choose the correct meaning in the context 
of this unit.
PHOTOCOPIABLE
 
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1–2 Ask students to do these exercises.
Did you know?
If you are teaching a multilingual group in Britain, you can ask 
students about the coins in their wallets, e.g. Has anyone got 
1p? Has anyone got a 5p piece?
Explain that you can use p or pence when talking about amounts 
less than a pound (£1), e.g. 50p or 50 pence. Also you can refer 
to a coin as a 50p / 50 pence piece.
3 Students can do this exercise in pairs. Check answers.
Focus on … no
Ask students to do the exercises. Elicit or explain that another 
common sign is No parking.
4 Students can do this exercise in pairs. They can either work 
together to work out the costs, or they can work on their own 
and then compare answers. 
Students can write four more days and times, and then 
exchange their list with a partner. They have to work out how 
much it will cost to park.
5 Ask students how much the penalty charge is for parking 
incorrectly.
6 Students can do this exercise in pairs. When students have 
fi nished the exercise, ask them if pay and display meters work 
in the same way in their country.
More activities
If you are teaching a multilingual group in Britain, you can 
ask students to look at the parking meters in the town / city 
where they are studying and fi nd out if they are similar to the 
one in Section B.